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Empirical challenges comparing inequality across countries : the case of middle-income countries from the LIS database
Checchi, Daniele; Cupák, Andrej; Munzi, Teresa; … - 2018
This study presents new empirical results, using microdata from the LIS database, on development patterns in economic inequality for a set of countries that are less covered in the empirical literature, mostly due to the lack of appropriate data. After discussing the main challenges when...
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Learning from Asia's success beyond simplistic 'lesson-making'
Hobday, Michael - 2011
Many international organizations, governments and academics concerned with economic development look to Asia's success … East and South East Asia and asks: what can other developing countries learn from Asia's success, if anything? The study … developing nations of today cannot ignore the rise of Asia and the study identifies useful insights from the Asian experience …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009261012
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A short history of India's economy : a chapter in the Asian drama
Basu, Kaushik - 2018
This paper is a short history of the Indian economy since 1968. India today is a changed country from what it was half a century ago, when Myrdal published his Asian Drama. The stranglehold of low growth has been broken, its population below the poverty line has fallen markedly, and India has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011913519
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The practice of industrial policy : lessons for Africa ; co-ordination through an Asian lens
Lin, Justin Yifu; Vũ-Minh-Khương - 2014
African countries are facing great opportunities but also formidable challenges in accelerating economic growth and sustaining a high level of economic performance. The experiences of East Asian countries may offer valuable insights for African leaders and governments in making concerted efforts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010438054
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Employment and development in Asia
Hoeven, Rolph van der - 2018
How have economic development, employment, and labour markets in Asian countries interacted since the publication of Myrdal's Asian Drama? Myrdal rejected, the western approach to and definition of employment and emphasized the role of "informal" employment, but he underestimated the effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011913079
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The state and development
Evans, Peter B.; Heller, Patrick - 2018
Using a comparative frame that draws on the variation of developmental trajectories in Asia from Northeast Asia to … China to Southeast Asia and to India, this paper explores the changing role of the state in these countries and the … possibilities for state action in Asia have been shaped by geo-political context and colonial heritage. We analyse the ways in which …
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Asian development after the Asian Drama
Kozul-Wright, Richard; Poon, Daniel - 2018
these policy tools to achieve stated objectives; and (iii) the overall development trends observed in the Asia region. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011922187
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Asia and the world economy in historical perspective
Findlay, Ronald - 2018
of Asia between themselves and the rest of the world over the past millennium, paying particular attention to: the Pax … final section discusses the comparative evolution of Europe and Asia and the question of why the Industrial Revolution did … not first occur in Asia. …
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Nationalism and development in Asia
Duara, Prasenjit - 2018
This paper identifies historic patterns in the dialectic between nationalism and development across various East, South, and Southeast Asian nations. Nationalism as the rationale for development is used by regimes to achieve high levels of growth, but also generates exclusivism and hostilities,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011895540
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Macroeconomic risks after a decade of microeconomic turbulence : South Africa 2007-2020
Hausmann, Ricardo; Sturzenegger, Federico; Goldstein, … - 2022
This study analyses the performance of macroeconomic policy in South Africa in 2007- 2020 and outlines challenges for policy in the coming decade. After remarkable economic growth in 1997-07, South Africa's progress slowed dramatically in 2009 with the global financial crisis. Real GDP growth...
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